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US boycott continues: Senior Israeli ministers not invited to embassy New Year toast

Invitations to the event were withheld from Ministers from Religious Zionism and Otzma Yehudit, including Smotrich and Ben-Gvir.

The United States Embassy is scheduled to hold a toast in honor of the upcoming Jewish New Year, among those invited are the ministers in Israel's government, but ministers from two coalition parties did not receive invites.

Channel 13 on Wednesday reported that interim Ambassador to Israel Stephanie Hallett distributed invitations to the event to all of the Israeli ministers. Those who did not receive invitations were the ministers from the Religious Zionism and Otzma Yehudit parties, including Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.

The decision not to invite the ministers to the event continues the Biden administration's undeclared boycott of the parties to the right of the Likud. In July, the embassy withheld invitations to its July 4th celebration from the parties' ministers.

The two parties, which have been ignored by Israel's greatest ally since the current government was sworn in, make up over 20% of the current Israeli government and were democratically elected by more than 500,000 Israelis.

The US Embassy responded to the report, stating: "The guest list includes only those who have close work ties with the embassy."

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Felix Melloul 11:37 07.09.2023
We need to thank ALL THE JEWS IN USA THAT SUPPORT THE DEMOCRATS for this
09:03 07.09.2023
The ones that were invited is very telling. They’ll be the crooked ones. Notice who they are, who your internal enemies are. We see it all the time. Very telling indeed!
09:00 07.09.2023
You won’t miss a thing Bibi. He’s a coward and frightened of you.
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